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Volatile Organic

Chemicals

MCL

(ppb)

Potential Health Effects

Benzene 5 Cancer

Carbon tetrachloride 5 Liver effects, cancer

Chlorobenzene 100 Liver, kidney, nervous system effects

o-Dichlorobenzene 600 Liver, kidney, blood cell effects

para-Dichlorobenzene 175 Kidney effects, possible carcinogen

1,2-Dichloroethane 5 Cancer

1,1-Dichloroethylene 7

Liver, kidney effects, possible

carcinogen

cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene 70

Liver, kidney, nervous system,

circulatory system effects

trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene 100

Liver, kidney, nervous system,

circulatory system effects

1,2-Dichloropropane 5 Cancer

Ethylbenzene 700 Liver, kidney, nervous system effects

Methylene chloride 5 Cancer

Styrene 100

Liver, nervous systems effects,

possible carcinogen

Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) 5 Cancer

Toluene 1,000

Liver, kidney, nervous system,

circulatory system effects

Total trihalomethanes
Chloroform
Bromoform
Bromodichloromethane
Chlorodibromomethane

100 Cancer

1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene 70 Liver, kidney effects

1,1,1-Trichloroethane 200 Liver, nervous system effects

1,1,2-Trichloroethane 5

Kidney, liver effects, possible

carcinogen

Trichloroethylene (TCE) 5 Cancer